John M. Barry is the author of Rising Tide, The Ambition and the Power: A True Story of Washington, and co-author of The Transformed Cell, which has been published in twelve languages. As Washington editor of Dunn's Review, he covered national politics, and he has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated. He lives in New Orleans and Washington, D
Jim Squires Los Angeles Times An important contribution to history and literature.
Journalist Barry (The Transformed Cell, LJ 9/1/92) considers the consequences of our greatest natural disaster, leaving 1000 dead and 30 feet of water over land from Missouri to the sea. A 14-city author tour includes several spots in the flood zone.
T.H. Watkins The New York Times Book Review Extraordinary...Rising Tide stands not only as a powerful story of disaster but as an accomplished and important social history, magisterial in its scope and fiercely dedicated to unearthing truth.
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